Willie Hugh Nelson is an American musician, songwriter and guitarist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie, combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust, made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. Inspirational Willie Nelson quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Most Famous Willie Nelson Quotes
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone. Willie Nelson
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now. Willie Nelson
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. Willie Nelson
I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs I couldn’t even find my bike. Willie Nelson
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? Willie Nelson
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. Willie Nelson
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart. Willie Nelson
As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them. Willie Nelson
Be gentle with your words you can’t take them back. Willie Nelson
Freedom is control in your own life. Willie Nelson
Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. Willie Nelson
I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control. Willie Nelson
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis. Willie Nelson
I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone. Willie Nelson
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis. Willie Nelson
You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it’s hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can. Willie Nelson
God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. Willie Nelson
Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem. Willie Nelson
I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I’m sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural. Willie Nelson
One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart. Willie Nelson
Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That’s what I wanted to prove. Willie Nelson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson
I was influenced a lot by those around me there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. Willie Nelson
If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson
I don’t like to think too far ahead. Willie Nelson
As adults we try to relax from the never ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics. Willie Nelson
The whole house came up and I came up with it. I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me. Willie Nelson
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson
You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Willie Nelson
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson
What has changed is that nothing has changed that’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else. Willie Nelson
If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content, because it’s always right now. Willie Nelson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson
Ninety nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play. Willie Nelson
It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time. Willie Nelson
You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. Willie Nelson
Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going! Willie Nelson
If a song was ever good, it’s still good. Willie Nelson
I believe that all roads lead to the same place and that is wherever all roads lead to. Willie Nelson
Three chords and the truth that’s what a country song is. Willie Nelson
You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it. Willie Nelson
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. Willie Nelson
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. Willie Nelson
If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it. Willie Nelson
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. Willie Nelson
It’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on. Willie Nelson
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money. Willie Nelson
The life I love is making music with my friends. Willie Nelson
When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best. Willie Nelson
Three chords and the truth that’s what a country song is. Willie Nelson
Most of the stuff I’ve read about me has been true. Willie Nelson
Great songs stand out wherever they’re from. Willie Nelson
I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time. Willie Nelson
Well the country songs themselves are three chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. Willie Nelson
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round. Willie Nelson
Well the country songs themselves are three chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. Willie Nelson
I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads. Willie Nelson
I just enjoy both working and not working. Willie Nelson
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? Willie Nelson
But if you think of all the people who don’t like me, just think of all the millions who’ve never heard of me! Willie Nelson
I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. Willie Nelson
You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it. Willie Nelson
I’m not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That’s just not the guy I am. Willie Nelson
I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone. Willie Nelson
When I see someone I think is cool, he’s a pretty well adjusted individual. He’s not too affected one way or the other by what’s happening, no matter what’s going through his mind. Willie Nelson
When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground. Willie Nelson
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I’m in a bus for 22 hours. It’s not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there. Willie Nelson
I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it’s not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it. Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. Willie Nelson
I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy. Willie Nelson
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It’s all about the inflection. Willie Nelson
